ذوق و شوق
شوق ترا اگر نہ ہو میری نماز کا اماممیرا قیام بھی حجاب، میرا سجود بھی حجاب
English translation
If my prayer is not inspired by a love of Thee, my prayer is futile; my bowing to Thee is a pose.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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